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Pakistan’s defence minister Khawaja Asif has issued a stark warning to Afghanistan, declaring that Islamabad was “in a state of war" and would respond decisively to any aggression after a suicide bombing in the capital killed at least 12 people.

Speaking after the attack outside a district court in Islamabad’s G-11 sector, Asif accused the Afghan Taliban regime of allowing terror groups to operate freely from its territory. “If acts of terrorism are being planned and executed from Afghan soil, then they will have to be answered in the same coin," he said, signalling that cross-border military action was now on the table.

The comments mark a sharp escalation in tensions between the two neighbours, coming just hours after the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a grou

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